Quotes About Pleasure

Nanny just tended to put a hot poultice on everything and recommend a large glass of whatever the patient liked best on the basis that since you were going to be ill anyway you might as well get some enjoyment out of it.

Life is addictive. If people complain overmuch, I think I will have to draw that fact to their attention.

Well, Hell was worse, of course, by definition. But Crowley remembered what Heaven was like, and it had quite a few things in common with Hell. You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell.

Death drowns the unsatisfied man, whose restless mind clutches for greater and greater pleasures.

While they could appreciate the artistry of the dancers and musicians, they were not carried away by the pleasures they offered. They had their own dreams—to find answers concerning the spiritual quest and the renewal of society.

Ha volna idÅ'm és merészelnék ennyire eltérni a tárgytól, írnék egy külön fejezetet az elsÅ' kancsó sörrÅ'l, amelyet angol földön iszik meg az ember. Ó, milyen jól esik! Érdemes elmenni egy esztendÅ're hazulról, csak azért, hogy ezt az elsÅ' kortyot élvezzük.

Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not, as is asserted, flight from a wretched reality, but from the last remaining thought of resistance.

The culture industry perpetually cheats its consumers of what it perpetually promises. The promissory note which, with its plots and staging, it draws on pleasure is endlessly prolonged; the promise, which is actually all the spectacle consists of, is illusory: all it actually confirms is that the real point will never be reached, that the diner must be satisfied with the menu.

Alles, was uns Freude machen soll, ist an Zeit und Umstände gebunden, und was uns heute noch beglückt, ist morgen wertlos.

She would sip an elderflower tisane and he would drink a dark, aromatic espresso.

The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable—is a loss, not a gain, in true sophistication. The secular substitute—the belief in the perfection of life on earth by the endless extension of a choice of pleasures—is not merely callow by comparison but much less realistic in its understanding of human nature.

When we're having a toothache, we know that not having a toothache is a wonderful thing. Yet when we don't have a toothache, we're still not happy. A non-toothache is very pleasant.

Drinking tea or coffee can be one of our daily pleasures if we partake of it fully.

Every living thing wants to continue into the future. This is true of humans, as well as of all other animals. Sex and sexual reproduction are part of life. Sex can bring great pleasure and enrich a deep connection between two people. We shouldn't be against sex, but we also shouldn't confuse it with love. True love doesn't necessarily have to do with sex. We can love perfectly without sex and we can have sex without love.

We think that by seeking pleasure we'll avoid suffering. But this doesn't work.

Cars bring me sheer joy.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Reading was and still is my real joy.

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there's all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys, but none come to mind just now.

Nobody is in the world should be deprived of the joys of eating.

I do everything: I'll have a green juice, then a melted chocolate ice cream. I stay up very late, I get up very early.

I learnt a lot from eating junk food.

I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.